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Friday for global markets starts negatively. Shares around the world fell amid the sales that began in the US yesterday in the technology sector of the market. The high-tech NASDAQ lost 0.63%. Today in Europe, the overall Stoxx 600 index fell by 0.9% immediately after the opening of trading, after a large-scale decline in Asian markets and an unsatisfactory session on Wall Street. In the FOREX currency market, the euro rose 0.2% against the dollar at 1.1711, and the British pound rose 0.1% to 1.3095 dollars, which increased the pressure on local exchanges. The US Department of Commerce publishes a preliminary estimate of gross domestic product in the second quarter later today, which is expected to confirm that the economy has recovered from a slowdown in the first three months of the year. Earlier, the stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region fell at the end of a positive week, while technology stocks lowered key benchmarks. Korean Kospi fell by 1.7% amid falling Samsung Electronics stocks by 4.1%, while the S & P / ASX 200 index in Australia fell by 1.4%, thus offsetting the growth of the previous three days. The Japanese Nikkei and the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong also fell 0.6%.